It will be interesting to see which Joe Biden will deliver the keynote address at the National Peace Officers’ Memorial Service on May 15th.  In 2021, an angry Biden delivered a bitter tongue-lashing to the officers who adhered to honor their fallen brothers and sisters.  He was playing to his base at that time, the rabid anti-law enforcement activists who advocated defunding the police, and set the major cities ablaze in the George Floyd summer of 2020.

Because it is a federal day and week, whoever occupies the White House issues a proclamation during Police Week every year. With that in mind, does this sound as if it’s part of a presidential tribute to law enforcement officers?

This year, we also recognize that in many of our communities, especially Black and brown communities, there is a deep sense of distrust towards law enforcement; a distrust that has been exacerbated by the recent deaths of several Black and brown people at the hands of law enforcement.

If your answer is “no,” then you won’t be surprised to learn it’s a passage from President Biden’s 2021 Proclamation on Peace Officers Memorial Day and Police Week. I suspect his aides were given the word to tone it down after the blowback that the proclamation received from members of the law enforcement community and pro-law enforcement voters. The following year Joe loaded his speech with platitudes and scrapped the tongue-lashing.

In this election year, it will be interesting to see what type of speech he will give at the Peace Officer Memorial service, which takes place on the lawn of the Capitol Building grounds. My guess is that he’ll play up to the Capitol Police and use the occasion to again condemn the ‘MAGA’ rioters and anyone who votes Republican. If this happens, then perhaps some of the more conservative officers in the crowd will voice their disgust and turn their back on him as he stands at the lectern.

While the violent rioters on January 6th deserve fitting punishment, those who were merely trespassing do not deserve years in prison.  This is especially true since Attorney General Merrick Garland’s Justice Department did not pursue the Portland Federal Courthouse rioters with the same determination in 2020.  In fact, most were let off with a slap on the wrist, if they were even prosecuted at all. DHS sent more than 750 federal officers and spent millions responding to Portland protests during the summer of 2020.

I submit that these were the “shock troops” of the Democrat Party, and the Justice Department treated them with kid gloves. In effect, they were performing a de facto in-kind service to benefit the Biden campaign by energizing their far-Left wing.

But now, in this presidential election year, Biden can’t afford to be anti-law enforcement in the least.  If he manages to be awarded a second term, the restraints will be off; his far-Left handlers will have free rein to decimate the police, as they have always dreamed of doing.  The Biden Trojan Horse strategy going forward during election season will be to appear as “moderate” as possible and keep a lid on any overt radicalism until after November 5th.

There will be shenanigans and withholding of critical information by the “progressive” mainstream media this time around as in the past several presidential election cycles.  The electorate is becoming more aware of these tactics, and their effectiveness is waning.  Let’s hope that the backlash is so overwhelming that the Biden crew won’t be able to push Old Joe over the finish line.

Michael Bertolone, MS is a freelance writer and a past Executive Vice President of the Monroe County (NY) Law Enforcement Association.

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